Ruskin Park, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Logan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57314. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Forestburg quadrangle.

Ruskin Park within Sanborn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1898 USGS Huron quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Forestburg quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Huron quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Ruskin Park between 2000 and 2013, burning about 383 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Sanborn County	OLSON BALER
14 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	JUDY BRIGGS
22 March 2004	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
11 February 2000	Debris and open burning	350 acres	Woonsocket Volunteer Fire Department	DISO GRASS
16 November 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DAVIS RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanborn County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ruskin Park: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Sanborn County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Senska Pit No 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Senska Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sanborn County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Forestburg	1.3 miles	9
Cuthbert	7.2 miles	11
Letcher	7.8 miles	11
Artesian	9.3 miles	11
Woonsocket	10.1 miles	9
Upland Colony	10.9 miles	12
Farwell	14.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1257528. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.